Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and DickinsonBloomsbury Academic, 2002 M04 30 - 184 pages Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson form an engaging triad of poets who, considered together, enrich the poetics of each other; the works of the three poets address language, birth, and scientific aspects of culture in ways that frame new perceptions of sex roles. Exacerbating 19th-century American expectations for sexually-constructed experience, they employ tactics that disrupt patriarchal signification. The first book to group these three poets together, this volume examines the daring language experiments in which they engage. It explores their use of pseduoscientific and scientific studies of alchemy, hydropathy, and botany to inform their understanding of language and birth and to discover expressions that challenge expectations for 19th-century poetry. |
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... culture : the poetry of Poe , Whitman , and Dickinson / Daneen Wardrop . p . cm . ( Contributions to the study of American literature , ISSN 1092-6356 ; no . 14 ) Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-313-32234–1 ( alk ...
... culture . Given their status of minority by dint of sexual choice or orientation , the poets created their works partly in reaction to the dominant culture and , in so doing , devel- oped strategies to undermine the patriarchy . Often ...
... culture . Dickinson out - others the other in this poem , aligning the namelessness of women by means of suggesting the chora . Lacanian theory iterates that we utilize the Name - of - the - Father , the phallus as signifier , in order ...
Contents
Poes The Raven and Gestative Signification | 11 |
Whitmans Song of Myself and Gestative Signification | 31 |
Dickinsons Fascicle TwentyEight and Gestative Signification | 45 |
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